Dangerous Gas may be cause of super-charged weather, mass die-offs, quakes and more

Here's an article discussing the permafrost thaw. The article starts off about how we are reaching a tipping point if the global temps rise even 1.5
degrees and goes into describing the consequences. But then at the end it attempts to downplay its own message by saying permafrost melt is no big
deal and that it's been overhyped. Nonetheless, there is some good information here.

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, and climatologists have long warned that this will cause positive feedbacks that will
speed up climate change further. The region is home to enormous stores of organic carbon, mostly in the form of permafrost soils and icy clathrates
that trap methane – a powerful greenhouse gas that could escape into the atmosphere. The Siberian permafrost is a particular danger. A large region
called the Yedoma could undergo runaway decomposition once it starts to melt, because microbes in the soil would eat the carbon and produce heat,
melting more soil and releasing ever more greenhouse gases. In short, the melting of Yedoma is a tipping point: once it starts, there may be no
stopping it.

So far this year there have been 89 known mass die-offs. That's 52 days. That's 1.71 mass die-offs per day. In 2012 there were 464 known events.
That's 1.27 mass die-offs per day. That's quite an increase, but in 2011 there were 145 known events. That's only 0.4 events per day.

2011 145 die-offs 0.4 per day
2012 464 die-offs 1.27 per day
2013 89 so far 1.71 per day

The vast majority of these die-offs are from methane and hydrogen sulfide plumes in the air or in the sea. As with so many other phenomena I've
listed in this dangerous gas thread; earthquakes, fireballs, disease, volcanoes, sinkholes, super-storms, sonic booms, sky noise, floods, blizzards,
droughts, wildfires, unexplained explosions, mysterious deaths, etc., etc...., everything is on the rise! I continue to put up numbers such as these
but the debunkers and skeptics will continue to argue that nothing is on the rise, but the numbers don't lie. This isn't a case of better reporting.
If these numbers had a comparison from say 50 years ago, 20 years ago, but no, this is over three years.

Some experts believe that the bees could be about to die and at least one third of our food depends on pollination of flowering plants. Einstein
once said: "If the bees disappear, mankind would have only 4 more years of life”. Over 3 million colonies of bees have died in the USA since 2006
and over a thousand millions of bees have died in this period in the world.

And also there is a parasitic disease spreading through bee colonies causing zombie bees.

Hohn returned from vacation a few weeks ago to find many of his bees either dead or flying in jerky patterns and then flopping on the floor. He
remembered hearing about zombie bees, so he collected several of the corpses and popped them into a plastic bag. About a week later, the Kent man had
evidence his bees were infected: the pupae of parasitic flies.

And the bats are also dying. In the last six to seven years bat populations have been reduced by 90% with 6.7 million bats dying because of "white
nose syndrome"

First identified in the northeastern United States, WNS has wiped out an estimated 95% of Pennsylvania’s bat population and is quickly spreading
across the country. It was most recently discovered in Missouri, Delaware and Alabama. “This is like bringing small pox to the New World. It is
surely an unprecedented wildlife disaster for North America,” said Bucknell University professor Dr. DeeAnn Reeder. Reeder is one of the country’s
leading experts on WNS, and one of the researchers responsible for identifying the cause of the disease in 2011. “We can’t stop this thing. It’s
marching across the country and we’re going to see some extinction.”

From end-times-prophecy.org

Now why are these mass deaths of Bees and Bats a concern for the world? Because Honey Bees don't just make honey. They also do the vital job of
pollinating the majority of the flowering crops we have, from which we get much of our fruits, vegetables and nuts ... including Beans, Soybean,
Broccoli, Sprouts, Carrots, Cucumber, Onion, Parsnip, Squash, Tomato, Almonds, Cashew, Apple, Blackberry, Blueberry, Cacao, Coffee, Grapes, Kiwi,
Mango, Pear, Raspberry, Alfalfa, Sesame, Sunflower ... Just to name a few. A major part of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants. And
what about the bats? Well, not only do they help in pollinating other foods we eat, like Bananas, Mangoes, Dates, Figs, Peaches, Cashews, Guava and
Avocados. They also consume incredible amounts of insects that are agricultural pests. The millions of bats that have died due to disease over the
past 6 years would have consumed HUNDREDS OF TONNES of insects (pests) in ONE YEAR. Add this to the struggling crops because of adverse weather and
you will see the problem

Sinhole swallows man in his bed, presumed dead

A large sinkhole developed underneath his house in Brandon, FL. The first victim of a sinkhole and i'ts not going to be the last with the frequency
and size of these things.This story is just breaking out of FL on CNN. The hole is believed to be still growing and the house has been condemned.
Authorities believe there is a threat that other houses in the neighborhood will also sink. They said it is a natural sinkhole, not man made.

Using radar, engineers determined the sinkhole is about 100 feet in diameter, but it is not visible above ground except from inside the house. The
ground covering the massive cavity is mostly intact, but it could buckle, taking the entire house down with it -- as well as neighboring homes.
Authorities have evacuated the neighborhood. The hole occurred naturally, Damico said, and is still actively developing. It is not man-made. The
bedroom is on top of the hole's center. Engineers will return with more sophisticated monitoring equipment after daybreak to get a better idea of its
dimensions. They believe it could be 50 feet deep.

According to the Head of Department of Animal Husbandry Situbondo, Gaguk Mujianto, confirmed the existence of thousands of ducks owned by ranchers
who died suddenly. Even admitted it was down to the field to see the condition of the dead ducks. Gaguk claimed negative laboratory results of bird
flu. However, clinically it believes the symptoms of bird flu. Hence it was still awaiting the results of laboratory diagnosis to Surabaya.

With such a sudden mass death, it sounds more like a plume of gas. Why didn't other animals in the area die though? Maybe it depends on dose and how
it affects a certain size animal. More and more of this continue on a daily basis.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities say it was an F-16 from Luke Air Force Base in Glendale that broke the sound barrier and rattled some windows in
the Tucson area. Luke officials say its 425th fighter squadron was flying F-16 training missions in the Sells area around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday and one
of the jets "went supersonic just northwest of Kitt Peak" near Tucson. Base officials add the altitude at which the aircraft broke the sound barrier
was legal for supersonic flight in the area. The say F-16s in the mission were using flight paths and corridors around the Barry M. Goldwater Air
Force Range in southwestern Arizona.

I'm not buying it. Originally, the sheriff ruled out the Air Force base.

Thursday night, officials from a variety of local agencies said they couldn't explain the boom. On the West Side, there were two distinct booms
and the ground shook for several seconds around 7:35-7:40 p.m. A spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that they had ruled
out Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Luke AFB, Tucson International Airport, Southwest Gas and other gas companies and Tucson Electric Power as being
related to the boom. Area copper mines were also not involved.

A large chunk of Tucson - stretching from Midtown across the mountains to Three Points and northwest to Marana - was rattled Wednesday evening by
a loud, deep boom and shaking ground. Some reported two booms.

Methane could be the new black gold

This article reports that landfills and cattle manure could be converted to a renewable energy source.

What does get some government officials and landfill operators excited is methane. The EPA reports, "Landfill methane is produced when organic
materials (such as yard waste, household waste, food waste, and paper) are decomposed by bacteria under anaerobic conditions (i.e., in the absence of
oxygen)." And methane may be the new black gold. It can be processed and burned in vehicles modified to use the fuel or it can be burned in
generators that create electricity. The BMW plant in Greer, S.C., harvests 60 percent of its energy from the methane gas generated at a nearby
landfill. In Florida, Jacksonville Electric Authority recovered more than 17,000 tons of methane from two municipal landfill sites from 2003 to
2005.

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services recorded 80,000 cattle in Randolph County in January 2012. An adult cow can generate
about 100 pounds of manure a day. One pound of cow manure can produce about one cubic foot of gas. About 60 percent of that gas is estimated to be
usable methane. One bio-fuel source estimates the manure produced by one cow in one year can produce enough methane to replace more than 53 gallons of
gasoline. So, 80,000 cattle should be able to make enough methane to replace about 4.2 million gallons of gas per year

They better get busy, because there may be a lot more methane going up into the atmosphere than is safe with the Arctic ice and permafrost melts. Any
way they can reduce the methane emissions into the atmosphere, the better. They are losing about 9% of methane in fracking wells in Utah. Too bad they
couldn't capture that escaping gas as well.

Originally posted by thepolish1
We have a landfill a few towns over, and if you go by at night it's neat, because they burn off some of it through vents, and some of it goes to a
mini power station.

Off topic: Read your post in my thread, go back and read page two if you have the time. You might get a chuckle out of it.

Cool thanks.
On another note about the methane burn at landfills. Here is an article that paints a different picture; basically the toxins released into the air is
not good for people living in the area.

The National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, reports burning landfill gas (which is 40-60 percent methane)
"produces minute quantities of dioxins, an extremely toxic group of chemicals that are harmful even in very small amounts." The Sierra Club reports
that the contaminants generated along with methane in a landfill are another problem. "Some landfill gas escapes capture by the gas collection system
and rises from the landfill into the air along with methane. Studies indicate that populations within several miles of landfills, especially children,
have an increased risk of multiple diseases," Sierra Club researchers report.

Just updated the sinkhole watch thread. There are 16 sinkholes this last week that I was able to find not counting the Florida sinkhole that claimed a
man's life. 14 of those are here in America. That's two per day. Check out the update here;

Worker caught in a tank when cleaning it out dies from a plume of hydrogen sulfide. The cousin who was also working in the tank said a clear, cloudy
smoke entered the tank.

“My cousin screamed,” Jermel Storey said recently of the accident. “Nobody helped. It was like nothing ever happened.” Gast said Samir
Storey died “within minutes.” Hydrogen sulfide affects the body in two ways, she said. It blocks oxygen from binding with blood cells, and it
interrupts the central nervous system, which, in turn, affects the respiratory system.

Tests are being carried out to determine what caused the deaths of more than 40 adult yellow-eyed penguins on the Otago Peninsula. Officials hope
the die-off does not become as bad as that of 1990 when almost 150 adult penguins died. Department of Conservation (DOC) officer David Agnew said it
took the penguin population in the area several years to recover from those deaths. It was hoped the current deaths were being caused by a biotoxin
occurring naturally in the marine environment, and for now it was assumed the fish the penguins were eating were making them ill.

Great video about Johnny's hydrogen sulfide hypothesis, the Jumping Jack Flash hypothesis. Check out this You Tube vid. The theory that Johnny and I
have worked on throughout the pages of this thread is spreading and more and more people are waking up.

Here's another fish die-off a little close to home here in Wisconsin. This one is an annual occurrence but officials said this year is much heavier
of a die-off than usual. Isn't that the same tune sang over and over again with all these phenomenon covered in this thread?

Hundreds of dead gizzard shad are shown washed up on the beach at Leo's Landing at Presque Isle State Park on Feb. 27. The annual fish kill is a
natural occurring event in Presque Isle Bay, but this year it's larger than normal, with up to a million dead fish, according to an Erie biologist.
If you have seen thousands of dead fish washed up across the shorelines of Presque Isle Bay, you're not alone. Biologists and other officials with
the Department of Environmental Protection began spotting the gizzard shad about two weeks ago. The fish kill is a natural occurrence, and is
unrelated to pollution, officials with DEP's northwest regional office said. "We're talking about upward of a million fish," said Jim Grazio,
DEP's Great Lakes biologist in Erie. Grazio called the fish kill a "very heavy die-off" that officials haven't seen locally in 10 to 15
years.

Methane from Ocean blamed for Santa Monica odor

Officials say a foul stench in Santa Monica over was probably caused by a large release of methane in the ocean. Fire departments in Los Angeles
and Santa Monica began receiving calls shortly after dawn on Sunday from Sunset Blvd. south to Venice Beach. A Santa Monica fire hazmat team took
readings off the coast near San Vicente Blvd., and found methane in the water. Read more:
ktla.com... Read more at
ktla.com...

Warming waters or shifting of the plates are to blame for causing a large plume to release. I'd say there's been a lot of imbalance on the crust of
the earth and we're seeing a lot of this. Two sinkholes in that town in Florida where the guy sank in his bedroom, and then reports of earth shaking
down in Naples, FL. This is probably the same thing, the earth's crust is moving all over the place and at the same time this is causing fractures
down below that are releasing these large plumes of gas which are causing mass animal die-offs. The cause of the plates moving is the weight pressure
from rising waters due to permafrost melt and Arctic ice melt. A chain reaction that's already been discussed in this thread. More proof will
continue coming to light and the media will have a harder time ignoring it as it does.

Been doing some reading on ocean acidification (dropping pH levels associated with the rise in H2S and related to Jumping Jack Flash's theory) and
stumbled upon a couple of interesting and disturbing articles that confirm the rapid decline in pH levels in an area off the west coast of the US.
Here are the links, if you haven't seen these already, it's worth a read:

Rez, per your request; here is a re-posting of the material I posted to the
Louisiana sinkhole thread.

There is a new posting at Celestial Convergence about several methane and gas leaks around the world. READ IT HERE
There are also links to many other sources from around the world in addition to the ones I am going to post in relation to the Bayou Corne Louisiana
sinkhole.

One of the stories a bit down the page is about new activity at the Bayou Corne sinkhole and methane leaks bubbling up at the Macondo site in the
gulf.

Bubbles Coming Up From The Centre Of The Giant Louisiana Sinkhole, As Methane Leaks Next To Macondo Site Under The
Gulf.

Response operations at the 8.6-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish were halted Tuesday after seismic monitors noted an increase in underground tremors
that have been linked with “burps” and edge collapses in the yawning slurry hole, state regulators and parish officials said. John Boudreaux,
director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said about five to six trees that had been leaning over for the past
week along the northeast side of the sinkhole fell in Tuesday morning and that small bubbling spots also have re-emerged in the sinkhole. “They do
have a section in the center of the sinkhole that has that bubbling,” he said... Boudreaux said Tuesday sharp tremors were being detected, but the
more significant activity is related to the long-period tremors...

Here is a video about a big crater in the sea bed at the macondo site...

In public presentations, scientists have said the burping and tremors are connected with the movement of fluids or gas through a zone of fractured
rock next to the Napoleonville Dome, while different, sharp tremors are produced by movement of sedimentary rock migrating into the failed cavern.

The movement was detected below the sinkhole and near the failed Texas Brine cavern. Scientists have said that fluid movement has been indicated by
so-called long-period tremors.

“As has been noted in earlier similar events, the fluid movement appears to be linked to observations of trees falling into the sinkhole, release of
trapped debris from the sinkhole bottom and increased odor from hydrocarbons released to surface,” officials said in the statement.

Work on the sinkhole will be suspended until the subsurface activity slows again, officials said Tuesday. About 80 percent of the failed cavern is now
filled, according to the latest estimate from early February.

Monarch butterflies drop ominously in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest
level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.

It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and Canada to spend the winter
sheltering in mountaintop fir forests in central Mexico. Six of the last seven years have shown drops, and there are now only one-fifteenth as many
butterflies as there were in 1997.

The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events,
the experts said.

Rezlooper I have a question I would like to ask...I live about 2 miles from the beach here in SC. And yes we are a major tourist attraction. My
question is, some nights we smell a horrible smell that has been coined "swamp gas". It does not matter the season, or the temperature outside,
there are times that we have to close the windows it is so vile. It comes and goes , its not all the time. Does this smell of "swamp gas" have
anything to do with what this article is talking about? I read your article twice and I can't tell if it includes this smell?

I'd be very concerned being that you live only two miles from the coast. Swamp gas is most often associated with methane gas. I definitely think this
would have everything to do with this theory. Hydrogen sulfide has a rotten egg smell to it and it's a good thing you can still smell it because once
you can't then it becomes deadly. Are other people in the area smelling that as well? Have you brought it up with any local officials? Maybe you can
get the air tested.

Here's a quote in regard to swamp gas giving off a blueish and purplish flame.

In spite of all the observations made of this natural oddity, it remains a puzzle to science. Assumptions have always been made that methane
(CH4), a odorless, colorless, and highly flammable gas, is the primary constituent of swamp gas. In nature, swamp gas results from the breakdown of
fats, cellulose, and proteins by anaerobic bacteria (those not requiring oxygen) in mud and sediment on the marsh floor. The gas is lighter than air
and will burn with a pale blue or yellow flame. At a stagnant pool, bubbles of swamp gas can be induced to ignite with a lighted match. The gas will
burn with a brief flame and often emit a ‘pop’ like report.

As far as smell goes, this is most likely hydrogen sulfide, which is also highly flammable. Either way, this is very concerning and you should get to
the bottom of it because it's not too safe.

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